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Los caminos y los accidentes en Carmelo Peralta: a propósito del asfaltado de la ruta PY-15 (Alto Paraguay)

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Abstract

This article examines the transformations brought about by the first paved road in the Department of Alto Paraguay along the PY-15 route, inaugurated in February 2022. Through archives and field interviews, it shows how the paving of 275 km between Loma Plata and Carmelo Peralta reconfigured mobility in a region previously dominated by waterways and dirt roads. It also analyzes the flip side of this transformation, which, while accelerating the flow of capital and reorienting a border zone towards Paraguay, stimulated new forms of road accidents that have had a particularly strong impact on the Ayoreo population.


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Submitted: Jan. 30, 2025 | Accepted: March 17, 2025 | Published Sept. 30, 2025 | Language: es

Keywords Anthropology of infrastructure • Road accidentality • Ayoreo • History of the Chaco

Copyright © 2025 Diego Ortúzar. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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